Improvement in shoe-tips



SUP-RIDE SHOE-TIP.

No.187, 775. Patented Feb. 27, 1 877.

N. PETERS, FHOTO-LITHOGRAPHER, WASHINGTON. D. G;

NI'IED STATES PATENT OFFICE,

SAMUEL PRIOR, OF TRENTON, NEW JERSEY.

IMPROVEMENT IN SHOE-TIPS.

- Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 187,775, datedFebruary 27, 1877; application filed January 15, 1877.

To all whom it may concern Be itv known that I, SAMUEL PRIOR, ofTrenton, New Jersey, have invented a new and useful Improvement inShoe-Tips; and I hereby declare the following to be a full, true, andexact description of the same, reference being had to the accompanyingdrawing.

My invention relates to shoe-tips formed or out from leather or rawhide;and consists in so combining leather or rawhide shoe-tips of the usualconstruction with an india-rubher web or base-plate so that the shoe-tipis constrained and prevented from spreading or opening,and is in theoperation of being secured to the boot or shoe retained in position onthe toe by the elastic force of the rubber base-plate. L

In the drawing, Figure 1 shows the ordinary leather shoe-tip. Fig. 2represents my The object of this invention is to produce a shoe-tiphaving the advantages of those construeted wholly of leather, and alsotheadvantages of those of rubber construction. My shoe-tip combinesthese advantages by presenting a leather substance in the exposedportions, and. yet having an elastic substance in the protected andnecessary part.

The difficulty of retaining the shoe tip of leather or rawhideconstruction upon the toe during the process of attaching it to the shoeis great, for the reason that the ends of the tip are liable to fly outfrom between the parts of the sole of the shoe before the process ofpegging or stitching has been accomplished. In a tip of my constructionthis difficulty is obviated, as the rubber base-plate serves constantlyto secure and hold the tip in position until it is fully secured, bypegging or stitching, to the shoe.

Having thus described my invention, what '1 claim, and desire to secureby Letters Pat-

